The Fire Department is responsible for organizing, directing and coordinating all Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) resources to accomplish our mission of saving lives and property in the community.The City of Southgate is dedicated to the protection of life, property and the environment for those who live, work, visit or invest in our community.

The Department enforces the Fire Safety Codes and Ordinances of the City through routine
inspections of businesses, industry and shopping centers for the purpose of reducing the chance
of fires. They provide emergency medical services and fire protection to the community. They are
trained in new EMS, fire suppression, hazardous materials, confined space and trench rescue
techniques, as well as many other fire service-related areas. Southgate has one fire station
professionally staffed 24 hours a day. On average the department attends to 450 fire related
calls and 2200 emergency rescue calls.